Ken Bruce is playing Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel and for years I believed the lyric "Show for me, I will show for you" to be "Chauffeur me, I will chauffeur you" thinking "Ah that's nice, they're going to take it in turns to drive each other around"

Joked to a much-younger friend today about my husband having "more holidays than Judith Chalmers" and had to explain who Judith Chalmers was, what Wish You Were Here? was, and more broadly, how holidays used to be chosen and booked pre-internet 😂 youtu.be/LpJja7A-NtY?...

1990s Tenerife | Playa de las Américas | Spain in the 1990s | Wish you were here? | 1992

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Just found myself standing in Liberty wailing at an assistant – with quiet, frenzied desperation – "You had some lovely mugs, HERE, where are the lovely mugs that were HERE?" and that's my Miranda Priestley "Where's that piece of paper I had in my hand last week?" moment for the day done with.

"Ooh no that's a bit new for me" says a contestant on Popmaster, to Ken Bruce's audible disdain, unable to identify Reach by S Club 7, from...2000.

One of my clients, always immaculate in Savile Row tailoring, loves taking the piss out of how I dress. Zingers include: – Did you run here? – What time is your tennis match? – This is restrained for you, usually you dress like Christmas And then yesterday, – Are you on your way to repair something?

Had lunch in a gorgeous restaurant in Leeds today, and as I left and stopped to take a photo the manager (possibly owner) stuck his head out the door and I thought, Oh, he's going to say he's recognised me, or thank me for coming, but no, I had walked out without paying. A big, humbling WHOOPS.

JD Vance killing the Pope is the new Liz Truss killing Queen Elizabeth II

This is so, so good, and expresses in much greater depth and detail what I've been saying a lot recently which is that the best thing those of us who give a damn can do to improve the world right now is to be abundantly, excessively, constantly kind to others www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump is creating a selfish, miserable world. Here’s what we can do | Michael Plant

The president is both a symptom and a cause of unhappiness and mistrust. But we can respond by rebuilding our social fabric

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It's so, so, SO much simpler to stay and pay your taxes. If you choose a life of constantly moving around the world in pursuit of paying the least tax possible, then excuse me if I don't shed a tear over you having to give up your membership of Annabel's on.ft.com/3GgnZcc via @financialtimes.com

Non-doms quit London private members’ clubs to avoid UK tax links

Lawyers advise wealthy clients that HMRC could use membership as evidence of strong ties to Britain

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Chef Guillermo Bitanga is bringing his refined French-Filipino cuisine to Pied à Terre's Kitchen Table for just eight services, from 29th April to 3rd May. With only eight seats at each service, just 64 diners will get to experience Guillermo's menu, so book now! 🇵🇭🇫🇷 eepurl.com/jcsFn6

#Sebastian is a terrific film, raw & clever & powerful & challenging & uncomfortable & REAL and just brilliantly written and acted – Ruaridh Mollica is extraordinary in the lead, and I squealed at Stella Gonet's all-too-brief appearance. Baffled it's not on wider release; had to hunt it down!

Just walked through Leicester Square for the first time since the busking ban came into force and my God, it's like a totally different place! Still teeming with people but it's a) peaceful and b) you can actually move freely around rather than having to navigate round static crowds. Amazing!

It's dawned on me why Trump is blaming Zelensky: he thought he could negotiate with Putin, and realising that he can't, is willing to sacrifice Ukraine to 'end' the war so he can take credit for that. Failing on all fronts, Trump needs any 'win' he can get, at any cost. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump blames Zelensky for starting war day after massive Russian attack

The US president said that you "don't start a war against someone 20 times your size" and hope people give you missiles.

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Meanwhile, back in earth, MacKenzie Scott quietly goes about giving away $19 billion.

Sky News being unintentionally honest.

The environmental impact is the single biggest reason why, as far as I possibly can, I'm avoiding using AI. I'm not scared of it, I'm not worried about it taking my job (yet...) I just don't want to fuel - literally - the destruction of the planet for the sake of a search or generating a silly image

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Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas

Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say

Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say

Combatants’ testimonies describe how areas were destroyed to create ‘a death zone of enormous proportions’ Israel’s military razed huge swathes of land inside the perimeter of Gaza and ordered troops to turn the area into a “kill zone” where anybody who entered was a target, according to testimony by soldiers who carried out the plan. Israeli combatants said they were ordered to destroy homes, factories and farmland roughly 1km (0.6 miles) inside the perimeter of Gaza to make a “buffer zone”, with one describing the area as looking like Hiroshima. Continue reading...

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‘Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow.’ www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Séamas O'Reilly: I discovered my own memoir had been used to train Meta AI

I hate that writers and artists must suffer the indignity of being pickpocketed by the richest men who’ve ever lived.

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The IDF murdered 15 paramedics in cold blood and buried them in shallow graves, then lied and lied about it until video evidence emerged proving their crimes. How, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, can Keir Starmer continue to allow UK arms sales to Israel in light of this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel changes account of Gaza medic killings after video showed deadly attack

Israeli forces killed 15 emergency workers in a convoy of ambulances near Rafah on 23 March.

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Is there any nicer feeling than waking up early for a Sunday, making yourself tea and breakfast, taking it back to bed, eating your breakfast, then falling back to sleep for an hour and waking up STILL early for a Sunday, and you've already had your breakfast? ✨BLISS✨

I love being gay; last night I posted on my Instagram stories about seeing a bad musical (Clueless – seriously, don't bother) and this morning my DMs are like someone's died, filled with condolences, words of reassurance, recommendations for better musicals...The Gays have got my back.

a man with makeup on his face and the words mama kudos for saying that below him

ALT: a man with makeup on his face and the words mama kudos for saying that below him

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‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics

‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics

Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers • Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again Gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a civilian now that Israeli forces have resumed their military campaign with even more ferocity, but for the first responders who rush towards the wreckage of bombed buildings, the risks are multiplied many times over. The 15 paramedics and rescue workers whose bodies were found last weekend in a bulldozed pit outside Rafah knew they were putting their lives in peril to try to save others, but they could not have been prepared for what awaited them in the early hours of 23 March. Continue reading...

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Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Yaaaass 🥳 Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble - on.ft.com/3FORHVn via @financialtimes.com

Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble

Company loses crown of world’s best-selling electric-vehicle maker to China’s BYD

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Energy bills up 6.4% — while network providers raked in £4 billion in “excess” profits over four years. Water bills up 26% — while firms paid £78 billion in dividends since privatisation & racked up £64 billion in debt. End this scam. Bring water & energy into public ownership.

Today I told a friend who said he "only reads the Mail online for the showbiz news" that that was "like going to a Nazi rally for the sandwiches" and I'm quite proud of that one

When I told my mother I was gay she said, “Well I expect you’ll get AIDS and die then.” She didn’t mean it cruelly. In 1985 that was normal. She became an outstanding LGBTQ ally, marching at Pride and wearing a red ribbon every day. Love to all mothers who love and support their gay children.

Oh no, I can't believe Trump 'buying' one didn't prevent this!

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Protests hit Tesla dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes